There is also a fine short-haired cat coming from Russia, usually self-colored. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
Very handsome self-colored bouquets can be arranged by giving a finish of the complementary shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
With small checks and narrow, self-colored stripes the effect is different, causing the texture to appear only shaded and not destroying the unity. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Eye rims must be self-colored or black, matching the nose and lips. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The pigmentation is black on the nose and eye rims except self-colored in brown, beaver, and blue dogs. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
On chocolate-and-tan-boar dachshunds, nose, nails, eye rims and eyes are self-colored, the darker the better. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A grey, self-colored carpet covered the floor, and on one of the chests stood a miniature bronze copy of the Faun of Praxiteles. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Room] Reference
Nose and nails-in the case of black dogs, black; for chocolate and all other colors, dark brown, but self-colored is acceptable. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Nose leather is black in the black and white and the black and white with tan points, and is self-colored or black in the red and white. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A Persian carpet of self-colored grayish blue, threw the gilt French chairs and the various figures sitting upon them into delicate relief. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
A trap-door it was, of huge dimensions, almost exactly covered by the self-colored square; but at each side a tongue of linoleum had been left loose for lifting it; and the lamp had scarcely been replaced upon the counter when the bulk of the floor leaned upright in one piece against the opposite wall. From Wordnik.com. [Stingaree] Reference
Similar examples are numerous among our common useful plants, and among flowers the dahlia and verbena furnish an illustration of countless varieties, embracing numberless hues and combinations of color, from purest white through nearly all the tints of the rainbow to almost black, of divers hights too, and habits of growth, springing up under the hand of cultivation in a few years from plants which at first yielded only a comparatively unattractive and self-colored flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals] Reference
She wrote in a simple, self-colored way. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Eye rims are self-colored and tight. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Ruby is a self-colored, rich mahogany red. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In moles, blues, and chocolates, they are self-colored. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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